The sacred topography of a monastic landscape and its development on the hilltop of Dra' Abu el-Naga / Upper Egypt: Deir el-Bakhit and the monastery of Apa Paulos in Western Thebes - pilot phase

西底比斯的Deir el-Bachit修道院，在所有的可能性中，都可以被确定为圣保罗修道院，这是由纸莎草纸文献很好地证明的。这种可能的身份鉴定的证据来自住持的名字，这些名字已经写在科普特人的介形文字上。寺院以东约400米处有一座隐士墓，编号：二十六世，建在法老陵墓里。刻下他们的名字九XC保罗，谁似乎居住在晚期古代陵墓。一条古老的小路将隐士和修道院直接联系在一起。假设是这样的：隐士保罗非常受人尊敬，他接待了在法老陵墓墙上留下姓名的客人。对修道院的崇拜与日俱增，并导致了修道院的建立。对保罗的崇拜以及修道院作为当地、地区甚至超地区朝圣中心的重要性应该是显而易见的，特别是在修道院社区的神圣中心--教堂。为此，为期一年的试点阶段旨在借助地球物理方法确定教堂的位置。为了验证地球物理测量的结果，重要的是通过小型试验挖掘来配合勘探。此外，将在试点阶段期间进行调查，以确定第号隐居是否有礼拜场所或礼拜堂。二十六.在这种情况下，目的是确定这个礼拜场所是否被保留，或者是否被遗弃，以支持在公元6世纪末到10世纪初居住的群居修道院内新建的教堂。

The monastery of Deir el-Bachit in Western Thebes can, in all probability, be identified as the monastery of St. Paul, which is well-attested by papyrus documents. Evidence for this possible identification came from the names of abbots, which have been written on coptic ostraca. Approximately 400 meters east of the monastery is a hermitage, tomb No. XXVI, built in a pharaonic tomb. An inscription their names IX XC Paulos, who seemed to inhabit the tomb in Late Antiquity. An ancient path connects the hermitage directly with the monastery.The hypothesis is as follows: The hermit Paulos was intensely venerated and he received guests who left their names as graffiti on the walls of the pharaonic tomb. The veneration grew and led to the foundation of the monastery. The veneration of Paulos and the significance of the monastery as a local, regional or even a supraregional pilgrimage center should be apparent especially in the sacred center of the monastic community, the church. For this reason a pilot phase of one year aims to locate the church with the aid of geophysical methods. To verify the results of the geophysical measurements, it is important to accompany the prospections by small test excavations. In addition, an investigation will take place in the duration of the pilot phase, in order to establish if there was a place of worship or a chapel in the hermitage No. XXVI. In this case, the aim is to ascertain if this place of worship was retained or if it was abandoned in favour of a newly-constructed church inside the coenobitic monastery, which was inhabited from the end of the 6th to the beginning of the 10th century AD.